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16-540: The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collector and philanthropist Felix Slade , with studentships also created at University College London . The studentships allowed for the creation of the Slade School of Art , now part of University College London , whose Director holds the Slade Professorship. They are normally therefore a practising artist. The chair at Oxford

32-651: A Lady" hangs in the Neill-Cochran House Museum in Austin, Texas . Her portraits follow in the tradition of Lawrence, but Wood found them to be more fanciful and feminine character, particularly in her portraits of children. In 1817, she married William Hookham Carpenter , Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum . Their children included two noted painters, another William and Percy Carpenter , who both travelled and painted in

48-666: A considerable fortune, which supported his purchases of books and prints. He lived with his bachelor brother Henry in the family house in Walcot Place (in the Kennington area of London) and built up a valuable collection of historical glass. When he died unmarried he left a fortune of £160,000 and bequeathed the bulk of his art collection to the British Museum ; the books are now in the British Library . One of

64-575: Is a visiting professorship, with duties restricted to a series of eight public lectures per year, on the "History, Theory, and Practice of the Fine Arts", to which four seminars have been added from 2011. The professorship is associated with All Souls College, Oxford . The bequest was also indirectly responsible for the foundation of the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford, which was financed by

80-584: The Indian subcontinent. She introduced her sister Harriet to the young painter William Collins . They eventually married, making Margaret the aunt to Wilkie Collins , novelist and friend to Charles Dickens . On her husband's death in 1866, she was given an annual pension of £100 by Queen Victoria . This award was partly based on her husband's service, but also in recognition of her own artistic merits. She died in London on 13 November 1872, in her 80th year, and

96-608: The Royal Academy between 1818 and 1866. Her painting The Lacemaker was on display at the 1857 Manchester Art Treasures exhibition. She also exhibited at the British Institution and at the Suffolk Street Gallery . Of Carpenter's Head of a Polish Jew , exhibited at the British Institution in 1823, a reviewer wrote: "It very rarely happens that a specimen of art like this is produced from

112-499: The Slade Professorship. The bequest was also indirectly responsible for the foundation of the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford, which was financed by the first Oxford Professor, John Ruskin , who announced his intention in his inaugural lecture "to the general dismay of his listeners". The Oxford and Cambridge professorships are visiting ones, who give the Slade Lectures , one of the most prestigious series of lectures on

128-421: The features of the book collection includes twenty-five bindings from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, representing English, French, and Italian styles. £35,000 was specified for the endowment of art professorships, to be known as Slade Professorships, at Oxford, Cambridge, and University College, London . University College received the additional bequest of six art scholarships for students,

144-564: The first Oxford professor, John Ruskin , who announced his intention in his inaugural lecture "to the general dismay of his listeners". The Cambridge Lectures are also a series of eight public lectures by a visiting professor. The Oxford and Cambridge professors are most often art historians or critics, but some artists have held the posts, especially at Oxford. The lectures are often subsequently published in book version. Source: Source: Source: Felix Slade Felix Joseph Slade FSA (6 August 1788 – 29 March 1868)

160-608: The hand of a lady: Here are colour, light, strength and effect, and anatomical drawing". The painting was bought for 45 guineas by the Marquess of Stafford , an influential art patrons, who had previously bought her medal-winning painting of 1813. In December 2013 the picture resurfaced at auction (with some fire damage) and was purchased by a family relative for restoration. Among Carpenter's exhibited portraits were those of Sir H. Bunbury (1822), Lady Denbigh (1831), and Lady King (better known as Ada Lovelace ) (1835). Her last work

176-596: The head of a boy was awarded a medal by the Society of Arts , who awarded her another medal in 1813, and a gold medal in 1814. She went to London in 1814, and soon established her reputation as a fashionable portrait painter . She exhibited a portrait of Lord Folkestone at the Royal Academy in 1814, and a picture entitled 'The Fortune Teller' at the British Institution . She exhibited regularly at

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192-543: The history of art, which are commonly published. The first Slade Professors were John Ruskin , at Oxford, and Matthew Digby Wyatt at Cambridge; Edward Poynter . gave the first lecture on 2 October 1871 at University College, London. He was the son of Robert Slade, a Surrey landowner and proctor in Doctors' Commons , who eventually became deputy lieutenant for Surrey, and his wife Eliza Foxcroft of Halsteads (near Thornton-in-Lonsdale, Yorkshire). From his father he inherited

208-589: The manner of Sir Thomas Lawrence . She was a close friend of Richard Parkes Bonington . Carpenter was born in Salisbury , the daughter of Captain Alexander Geddes, who was of an Edinburgh family, and Harriet Easton. She was taught art by a local drawing-master. Her first art studies were made from the pictures at Longford Castle , belonging to the Earl of Radnor . In 1812, one of Carpenter's copies of

224-406: The nucleus of the Slade School of Art . He meticulously catalogued his collection of glass, which was published in 1869 and 1871. Slade was the subject of a portrait in coloured chalk by Margaret Sarah Carpenter . Margaret Sarah Carpenter Margaret Sarah Carpenter ( née Geddes ; 1793 – 13 November 1872) was an English painter. Noted in her time, she mostly painted portraits in

240-648: Was a portrait of William Whewell . Three of her works are in the National Portrait Gallery collection in London, including portraits of her husband, Bonington and the sculptor John Gibson . There are also several ' leaving portraits ' by her in the collection at Eton College . Her portrait of 'The 2nd Lord de Tabley in Academic Robes' hangs in the dining room at Tabley House . There is also one of her portraits at Frewen College , of Helen Louisa Frewen and her son Edward. Her "Portrait of

256-481: Was an English lawyer and collector of glass , books and prints. A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1866) and a philanthropist who endowed three Slade Professorships of Fine Art at the University of Oxford and Cambridge University , and at University College London , where he also endowed scholarships which formed the beginning of the Slade School of Art (founded 1871) in London, whose Director holds

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